quick-tempered

English

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Adjective

quick-tempered (comparative more quick-tempered, superlative most quick-tempered)

1. Easily or quickly angered or frustrated.

   He was a quick-tempered fellow who was generally avoided by his co-workers.

Synonyms

• hot-headed
• short-tempered
• temperamental
• emotional

Antonyms

• cool (in the sense of calm or relaxed)
• cool-headed
• even-tempered

Related terms

• hot-tempered

Translations

easily or quickly angered or frustrated

• Azerbaijani: kəmfürsət, kəmhövsələ
• Bulgarian: сприхав (bg) (sprihav), избухлив (bg) (izbuhliv)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 急性子 (zh) (jíxìngzi), 性急 (zh) (xìngjí)

• Finnish: äkkipikainen (fi)
• German: hitzig (de)
• Greek: οξύθυμος (el) (oxýthymos), ευέξαπτος (el) (evéxaptos)

  Ancient: ὀξύθυμος (oxúthumos)

• Irish: mear, tobann
• Japanese: 怒りっぽい (おこりっぽい, okorippoi), 短気 (ja) (tanki)
• Russian: вспы́льчивый (ru) (vspýlʹčivyj), раздражи́тельный (ru) (razdražítelʹnyj), несде́ржанный (ru) (nesdéržannyj), горя́чий (ru) (gorjáčij)
• Spanish: calentón